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Local Organizations
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Chicago Wilderness
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Important umbrella organization for many environmental groups in the Chicagoland area.
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BarnSwallow, A Wild Bird Concern
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Barnswallow is a local nonprofit dedicated to rehabilitation of injured and orphaned raptors. Includes a FAQ of what to do
if you find a hawk, owl or other raptor that needs help.
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Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation
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Barrington-based facility that rehabilitates wild animals of all kinds.
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Lake County Forest Preserve
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Lake County Forest Preserve website
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Cook County Forest Preserve Volunteers
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Everything needed for the Cook County Forest Preserve volunteers.
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Cook County Forest Preserve
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Official web site for the Cook County Forest Preserves.
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Lake Forest Open Lands Association
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Open land advocacy group in Lake Forest, owning over 750 acres in a variety of habitats.
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McHenry County Defenders
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Variety of environment information and links for McHenry County. Plenty of information, but
the home page doesn't work well on older versions of Netscape.
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Chicagoland Environmental Network
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Chicagoland Environmental Network, with database
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Illinois RiverWatch Program
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Illinois river health monitoring program
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Illinois Environmental Council
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Political action group that keeps up with environmental bills before IL legislature;
their Web site contains links to over 2,500 environmental organizations in the US and Canada
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National Organizations
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Sierra Club, NW Cook County chapter
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The Sierra Club is involved with a variety of local interests, including restoration of Spring Creek Forest Preserve.
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National Audubon Society
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Audubon Society's web page, with a wide variety of resources, albeit not easily navigated - use this link for their magazine , and this for quick navigation .
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The Nature Conservancy
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Global non-profit organization with local branches that buys environmentally sensitive property
and generally transfers them to regional caretakers.
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Environmental News Network
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Wide range of environmental news.
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Resources
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Lake County Flora and Fauna
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Lake County wildlife and plants, provided by the Lake County Forest Preserves and the U.S.
Department of Education.
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Frog Calls and Video
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MidWest Frogs (Ravenswood Media) has an excellent collection of frog calls native to our area.
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Illinois Native Plant Society
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Illinois Native Plant Society website
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Illinois Wildflowers
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Identification of Illinois native flowering plants and trees,
grouped by habitat
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whatbird.wildbird.com
and identify.whatbird.com
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Identify wild birds using location, body type, habitat, etc.
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Bio Finder Image Database
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A library of photographs and illustrated images. The library is indexed by families.
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Hort.net Photo Gallery
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A digital photo gallery, indexed by scientific names.
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Texas A&M Digital Photo
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A digital library of vascular plant images, under development as a research project of the Texas A&M
Bioinformatics Working Group. The library can be browsed by alphabetical plant family listing,
or string search by plant names.
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USGS Prairie Resources
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Variety of papers and resources regarding the North American prairies. Use this link
for a guide
to midwestern plants.
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